SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 79 65 53
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.03% 9.39% 5.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.57% 34.21% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 44
10th Percentile £380 £350 £365
25th Percentile £413 £384 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £576 £478 £638
90th Percentile £600 £588 £706
South West median daily rate £500 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.33 - -
Median hourly rate £52.67 - -
75th Percentile £54.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £52.67 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.19%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 350 190 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.70% 27.46% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 112 144
10th Percentile £366 £321 £338
25th Percentile £418 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £494
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.92% +7.34%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £575
90th Percentile £634 £611 £671
South West median daily rate £510 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +7.37% -10.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 31 94
10th Percentile £53.53 - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.38 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.85
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.13%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.06%) Maximo
3 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.11%) Azure
2 13 (16.46%) Power Platform
3 11 (13.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.66%) AWS
5 7 (8.86%) OCI
5 7 (8.86%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.59%) GCP
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.06%) GitHub
8 4 (5.06%) Serverless
9 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.53%) dbt
10 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) WAN
3 3 (3.80%) Firewall
4 2 (2.53%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.53%) 4G
4 2 (2.53%) 5G
4 2 (2.53%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.53%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.53%) LTE
4 2 (2.53%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.53%) MPLS
4 2 (2.53%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.53%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) Power BI
2 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.33%) RDBMS
5 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
5 4 (5.06%) Tableau
6 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.80%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
7 2 (2.53%) Power Query
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.53%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.27%) EDRMS
8 1 (1.27%) GIS
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 4 (5.06%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Local Government
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) Data Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Senior
4 9 (11.39%) Analyst
4 9 (11.39%) Oracle Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Applications Support
6 6 (7.59%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Applications Support
6 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Support Officer
7 5 (6.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Integration Manager
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Data Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (8.86%) REST
2 5 (6.33%) JSON
2 5 (6.33%) SOAP
3 4 (5.06%) JDBC
3 4 (5.06%) Middleware
3 4 (5.06%) XML
4 3 (3.80%) Kafka
4 3 (3.80%) PySpark
4 3 (3.80%) RESTful
5 2 (2.53%) .NET
5 2 (2.53%) React
5 2 (2.53%) Web Services
6 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.27%) HTML
6 1 (1.27%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.27%) OAuth
6 1 (1.27%) Pandas
6 1 (1.27%) Spring
6 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (29.11%) Analytics
3 18 (22.78%) DevOps
4 17 (21.52%) Data Engineering
4 17 (21.52%) Data Modelling
4 17 (21.52%) Decision-Making
5 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.19%) Agile
6 12 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (12.66%) Data Security
8 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.13%) ETL
9 8 (10.13%) Information Security
9 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.86%) Data Science
10 7 (8.86%) Validation
11 6 (7.59%) Cost Optimisation
11 6 (7.59%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) PL/SQL
3 6 (7.59%) Java
4 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.53%) C
5 2 (2.53%) C#
5 2 (2.53%) R
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 12 (15.19%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Docker
1 4 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 1 (1.27%) CASB
3 1 (1.27%) Grafana
3 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Oracle
2 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.66%) Databricks
4 8 (10.13%) NEC
5 4 (5.06%) webMethods
6 3 (3.80%) Google
6 3 (3.80%) IBM
6 3 (3.80%) SAP
7 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.27%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.27%) Braze
8 1 (1.27%) Facebook
8 1 (1.27%) Salesforce